17980 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 68 / Tuesday, April 10, 2007 / Notices 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Advisory Committee on Veterans 

Business Affairs; Public Meeting 

The U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA), pursuant to the 

Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small 

Business Development Act of 1999 (Pub. 

L. 106–50), SBA Advisory Committee on 

Veterans Business Affairs will host a 

public federal meeting on Tuesday, 

April 24, 2007. The meeting will take 

place at the SBA, 409 3rd Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20416, starting at 9 a.m. 

until 5 p.m. The meeting will be held 

in the Eisenhower Conference Room, 

Side B; located on the 2nd floor. The 

purpose of this meeting is to focus on 

SBA’s services, programs and outreach 

for veterans and service-disabled 

veterans. 

Anyone wishing to attend must 

contact Cheryl Clark, Program Liaison in 

the Office of Veterans Business 

Development at (202) 205–6773 or send 

an e-mail to cheryl.clark@sba.gov. 

Matthew Teague, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E7–6642 Filed 4–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Request 

The Social Security Administration 

(SSA) publishes a list of information 

collection packages that will require 

clearance by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) in compliance with 

Public Law 104–13, the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 

1, 1995. The information collection 

packages that may be included in this 

notice are for new information 

collections, approval of existing 

information collections, revisions to 

OMB-approved information collections, 

and extensions (no change) of OMBapproved information collections. 

SSA is soliciting comments on the 

accuracy of the agency’s burden 

estimate; the need for the information; 

its practical utility; ways to enhance its 

quality, utility, and clarity; and on ways 

to minimize burden on respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. Written 

comments and recommendations 

regarding the information collection(s) 

should be submitted to the OMB Desk 

Officer and the SSA Reports Clearance 

Officer. The information can be mailed, 

faxed or e-mailed to the individuals at 

the addresses and fax numbers listed 

below: 

(OMB), Office of Management and 

Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA, 

Fax: 202–395–6974, E-mail address: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov. 

(SSA), Social Security Administration, 

DCBFM, Attn: Reports Clearance 

Officer, 1333 Annex Building, 6401 

Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235, 

Fax: 410–965–6400, E-mail address: 

OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov. 

I. The information collections listed 

below are pending at SSA and will be 

submitted to OMB within 60 days from 

the date of this notice. Therefore, your 

comments should be submitted to SSA 

within 60 days from the date of this 

publication. You can obtain copies of 

the collection instruments by calling the 

SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 410–

965–0454 or by writing to the address 

listed above. 

1. Request for Hearing by 

Administrative Law Judge—20 CFR 

404.929, 404.933, 416.1429, 404.1433, 

405.722, 418.1350—0960–0269. The 

information collected on Form HA–501–

U5 is used by SSA to document and 

initiate the Administrative Law Judge 

(ALJ) hearing process for determining 

eligibility or entitlement to Social 

Security benefits (Title II), 

Supplemental Security Income 

payments (Title XVI), Special Veterans 

Benefits (Title VIII), Medicare (Title 

XVIII). This information will also be 

used to request appeal of initial 

determinations regarding Medicare Part 

B income-related premium subsidy 

reductions. The methods for filing a 

request for an ALJ hearing are being 

expanded to include the Internet. If an 

individual receives a notice of denial of 

his/her disability claim and the notice 

provides rights to an ALJ hearing, he/ 

she will have the option of filing for the 

ALJ hearing over the Internet. The 

individual will complete the 

appropriate appeal screens and submit 

the appeal to SSA for processing. The 

respondents are individuals requesting 

an ALJ hearing. 

Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 669,469. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 178,525 

hours. 

Collection method Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Estimated 

completion 

time 

Total burden 

hours 

Paper & Modernized Claims System ................................................................. 334,735 1 10 minutes .. 55,789 

i501 ..................................................................................................................... 334,734 1 22 minutes .. 122,736 

Totals: ......................................................................................................... 669,469 ........................ ..................... 178,525 

2. Request for Reconsideration—20 

CFR 404.907–404.921, 416.1407–

416.1421, 408.1009—0960–0622. The 

information collected on Form SSA–

561–U2 is used by SSA to document 

and initiate the reconsideration process 

for determining eligibility or entitlement 

to Social Security benefits (Title II), 

Supplemental Security Income 

payments (Title XVI), Special Veterans 

Benefits (Title VIII), Medicare (Title 

XVIII). This information will also be 

used to request appeal of initial 

determinations regarding Medicare Part 

B income-related premium subsidy 

reductions. The methods for filing a 

request for reconsideration are being 

expanded to include the Internet. If an 

individual receives a notice of denial of 

his/her disability claim and the notice 

provides the right to reconsideration, 

he/she will have the option of filing for 

the reconsideration over the Internet. 

The individual will complete the 

appropriate appeal screens and submit 

the appeal to SSA for processing. The 

respondents are individuals filing for 

reconsideration. 

Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 1,461,700. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 341,064 

hours. 


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